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Lufkin (brand)

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Product type
  
Tape measure

Country
  
United States

Website
  
lufkintool.com

Owner
  
Apex Tool Group (2010)

Introduced
  
1869

Lufkin (brand)

Previous owners
  
Cooper Industries (1967)

Lufkin is a brand featuring primarily measurement tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes. Lufkin is a brand of Apex Tool Group.

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History

The company was founded by Edward Taylor Lufkin, an American Civil War veteran of the Sixtieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry in Cleveland, Ohio 1869 and was originally named E.T. Lufkin Board and Log Rule Manufacturing Company. Its Canada-based plant was in Barrie, Ontario.

The company was acquired in 1967 by Cooper Industries.

Innovations

Throughout its history Lufkin patented a variety of devices and manufacturing processes.

  • US 149321, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Improvement in Board Measures", issued April 7, 1874 
  • US 272279, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Headed Lumber Rule", issued February 13, 1883 
  • US 272892, Lufkin, Edward Taylor, "Machine for forming and dressing lumber-rules", issued February 27, 1883 

    • References

    Lufkin (brand) Wikipedia
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